What Metallic Dragons do you want?

[Klaus]

Gold, Silver, Bronze (aka, the Olympic Games dragons! ), Copper and Iron.

 

[Kaodi]

I voted for Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron and Classical, though I must agree that I would love to see colour-coded Dragons go bye-bye. If there are to be types of Dragons, it should be limited to Air Dragons, Land Dragons and Sea Dragons (for the Material Plane, in any case). Everything else would be customizable.

 

[HeinorNY]

I have a confession to make, maybe I'm not alone, but since I started playing D&D I always though the idea of metallic "themed" dragon to be very silly. It makes no sense to me (making sense really doesn't matter to the game) and I just think it's a poor concept.
Chromatic dragons are ok because I think they are more tied to the energies or elements, red fire, white ice, black acid, blue electricity. Not a great association of themes, but passable. Maybe we could call them another thing instead of "chromatic", or just call them dragons.
But metallic dragons? I wouldn't miss them if they didn't appear in 4e.
What about new themes, types or concepts for dragons? Mountain, swamp, desert, underdark, sea dragons?
Light dragons, Dark dragons?
(fey)Wild Dragons, Shadow(fell) Dragons, Astral Dragons?

 

[Irda Ranger]

I have a confession to make ... I always though the idea of metallic "themed" dragon to be very silly. It makes no sense to me (making sense really doesn't matter to the game)

I always thought of Dragons as the "ultimate" mortal creature. The Baalor/Solar of the Prime Material Plane, if you will. Each Plane (Elemental, Prime, Astral) has a range of creatures from the lowly to the great, and Dragons were the Great of the PM. None higher, save possibly the Titans (now recast as Elementals, but I'm talking pre-4E here) as peers.

Anywho, for that reason, it always made sense to me that the Dragons who were "of the Universe" would come in variations that reflected various "elements" of the Prime Material Plane (as opposed to the "Elements", the PM uses the Periodic Table). It also made sense to me that Dragons who collected and consumed treasure would over time (or through preference) come to resemble the treasure they ate (you are what you eat, you know).

None of that was ever canon, of course, but that's what I always thought.

I voted Gold, Silver, Copper, Brass and Iron. Adamantium Dragon is too Marvel.

 

[HeinorNY]

I always thought of Dragons as the "ultimate" mortal creature. The Baalor/Solar of the Prime Material Plane, if you will. Each Plane (Elemental, Prime, Astral) has a range of creatures from the lowly to the great, and Dragons were the Great of the PM. None higher, save possibly the Titans (now recast as Elementals, but I'm talking pre-4E here) as peers.

Anywho, for that reason, it always made sense to me that the Dragons who were "of the Universe" would come in variations that reflected various "elements" of the Prime Material Plane (as opposed to the "Elements", the PM uses the Periodic Table). It also made sense to me that Dragons who collected and consumed treasure would over time (or through preference) come to resemble the treasure they ate (you are what you eat, you know).

None of that was ever canon, of course, but that's what I always thought.

I voted Gold, Silver, Copper, Brass and Iron. Adamantium Dragon is too Marvel.

Cool concept.
But what did brass dragons collect? Doorknobs?

 

[Wepwawet]

I'd like to see all of them.
In fact, Dragons and Elementals for all of the periodic table!

 

[FourthBear]

Now that they've wisely removed alignment restrictions, I have to admit I don't really see much purpose in having the metallic dragons at all. As noted by ainatan, the chromatics at least have a semi-reasonable theme going with colors and elements. The metallics, not so much. What does brass have to do with sleep gas? Why does silver have cold and paralysis?

Now that you can commonly have wise and charitable blue dragons, good hearted if mischievous white dragons and noble and honorable red dragons, why do why even need metallic dragons? I don't mind them being in there for legacy reasons, but I hope they've done a better job of giving them a reason to exist.

 

[TwinBahamut]

Well, other than the information that iron is a popular choice for dragon metals, adamantine is not so clearly popular, and brass and bronze don't have the same popularity as the coinage metals, it seems that we might need a separate poll entirely on whether keeping the metallics, or even the current version of the chromatics, is even a good idea in the first place.

I will leave that poll to someone else though.

 

[Belorin]

Or we could drop the chromatic/metallic designations all together and go with enviornmental dragons and link their coloration with the location.
Desert - Tan
Mountain - Gray
Swamp - Black
Artic - White
Sea - Blue
Forest - Green

Just for the record I voted for the 4E line-up; Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Adamantine.

Bel

 

[Kobu]

I would like the alloys to go. I never saw the point and they get a bit confusing.